Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

but also made a bit of

SSSH!

wind left Alex's left arm again, and Alex's arm

time, Alex's arm wasn't burning

uncomfortably hot, the temperature that would make someone sweat

that left Alex's left arm wasn't

arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving

to test something

his left arm with his right arm and pointed it at

bit. Just a tiny, little bit,' Alex

SSSSSHH!

the storm coming out of the arm. However, since he

some icicles had formed

off his face and looked at his arm with

a tiny fraction, and my arm probably only heated up by a single

that this blast uses the outside temperature as a reference when

were -40°C right now, and if my arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the blast

scratched his chin as a complicated expression appeared on

ability relies heavily on my environment. After all, if I were in some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach

the effect would be different,' Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures

of 30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a

the temperature of my left arm even further in cold weather. I could run around with a 5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I

blast them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns

Alex scratched his chin.

in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me with

been walking all this time, and he finally came close to

tree and saw an

gigantic needles poked out of

munching on the octopus, seemingly without a care in

one of the tentacles and saw how it

of the octopus, and

stood before the fleshy wall of

was probably fifty meters long, which simply

jumped onto the tentacle and

where the hedgehog was currently munching away and stopped

after some seconds, it

hedgehog extended its head to Alex and sniffed

became a

spire in his body? After all, it was currently munching

similar to the

He hoped not!

hedgehog pulled its head

at the

back at Alex

that, the hedgehog walked to the

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

biting, the hedgehog had severed the

BANG!

hedgehog threw the tentacle a couple of meters into the distance with a kick